Burnline https://burnline.live/ Notes on measuring a day: where calorie figures come from, and what a tracker has no business claiming. en A bigger deficit is not a better day https://burnline.live/blog/a-bigger-deficit-is-not-a-better-day.html https://burnline.live/blog/a-bigger-deficit-is-not-a-better-day.html A progress ring says more is better. A calorie deficit is not a quantity you want to maximise, so the ring is the wrong shape — and here is what a diverging scale does instead. Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Don’t predict what nobody has eaten yet https://burnline.live/blog/a-tracker-should-not-predict-what-you-have-not-eaten.html https://burnline.live/blog/a-tracker-should-not-predict-what-you-have-not-eaten.html Calorie apps look wrong in the morning, so many of them project your day to midnight. We built that, shipped it, and deleted it — because extrapolating intake is not the same kind of guess as extrapolating burn. Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Where calorie counts actually come from https://burnline.live/blog/where-calorie-counts-come-from.html https://burnline.live/blog/where-calorie-counts-come-from.html Two apps give the same banana different numbers. Here is what is underneath them: USDA FoodData Central, why figures are published per 100 g, and why the portion — not the lab — is where the error lives. Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000